Happy 64th Birthday Bill Gates...October 28th 2019
Happy Birthday Bill Gates!!!
Rotary congratulates its great partner #endpolio on his 64th Birthday!
Bill Gates, Rotary's great partner in the eradication of polio, and Jonas Salk, inventor of the first Anti-Polio vaccine, share the same day and month of birth.
Bill Gates - one of the founders of Microsoft the giant software developer, is an American entrepreneur and a billionaire. He is considered one of the richest men in the world. In 2000 he created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest charity foundation.
William Henry Gates (1955) was born in Seattle, Washington, USA on October 28, 1955. His Father, William H. Gates was a lawyer, and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, a teacher. Bill and his sisters attended the best schools in their city.
Bill Gates started working with video game programs, the arcades. At the age of 17 he developed, along with Paul Allen, a software for reading magnetic tape. Created, in partnership with the company drug-O-data, but it did not show credibility to customers because of the age of the members.
In 1973 he attended Harvard, but in 1975 he left the maths and law courses. That same year, along with Paul Allen, he developed the basic language interpretation system for the computer called " Altair 8800 " and with money from its sales, founded the Microsoft Software Company for private computers, called PCs.
In 1977, the leading company in the large computer market, IBM, decided to enter the market of microinformática with the PC, closing contract with the newly created Microsoft, which then bought, for $50, a program developed for the processor Intel; personalized the program and sold it for $ 8 million in a, maintaining the product license, creating MS-Dos. Since then, Microsoft has become an empire of electronic programs.
In 1983 Microsoft released Windows, which gradually conquered 90 % of computers. With this, Bill Gates, 31 years old was a billionaire.
Bill Gates is considered one of the richest men in the world. He has received honorary titles, such as the order of the British Empire and the Honorary status of the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard.
In 2000, Bill Gates created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, designed to finance Aids research. On June 27, 2008, Gates left Microsoft to devote himself to the philanthropic projects of the foundation. He still has some participation in Microsoft's final decisions.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a great Rotary partner with the eradication of polio.